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An Historical Analysis of Leather THE ROLE OF A SINGLE ACTOR IN TECHNICAL INNOVATION AND NETWORK EVOLUTION: AN HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF THE LEATHER NETWORK Michael Redwood University of Bath CLAVERTON DOWN BATH BA2 7AY UK [email protected] corresponding author David Ford Affiliate Professor Euromed-Management, Marseille [email protected] Abstract Innovation is often seen as a vital element in the strategy of many companies seeking to differentiate themselves in a world of excess-capacity and wide customer choice. This single-company view of innovation seems to have been based on the assumption that it is possible for an individual company to “turn on” an innovation tap and change the direction of a business. But more recently, the interconnections between business actors, their activities and resources and the complexity of the innovation process have been emphasised. For example, Dosi (1988) discussed the effects on innovation of complex intersectional linkages and Lundgren (1995) and Håkansson and Waluszewski (2002) highlight how difficult it is to predict the outcomes of any attempt at innovation because of the limitations of actors‟ “network pictures” (Ford et al, 2003) in a business landscape characterised by interdependency, variety and motion (Hakansson et al 2009). 1 But despite the interdependencies between a single business company and its counterparts and the unpredictability and uncontrollability of the innovation process, individual companies still need to seek innovation and at least sometimes, they can play a decisive role in its achievement. This paper centres on the experience of a small UK company working mostly in the USA in the transformation of the network surrounding the production, distribution and use of leather1 in the late 19th century and which led to the introduction of a new chemistry which was to become the dominant process for the manufacture of all leather to this day. This paper chronicles the evolution of the company the network and the specific innovations using correspondence from the company founders and other contemporary sources. It observes the complexities and interactions involved over a tumultuous 25 years. Keywords: business networking; innovation; network evolution 2 INTRODUCTION: RESEARCH LOCATION AND RESEARCH METHODOLOGY This paper is concerned with the process of innovation in complex business networks. The paper uses historical documentation to investigate the interactions of a small UK company working mostly in the USA that had a pivotal role in the transformation of the network surrounding the production, distribution and use of leather2 in the late 19th century. This historical research location provides an opportunity to examine innovation within the context of network evolution over the long-term. This extended historical analysis also offers a wider perspective on the complex and continuing network outcomes of that networking and the innovations to which it leads. The paper is based on the letters written by Charles and Alfred Booth the founders and partners of Booth and Company. In many instances the actual letters are available and in others they are heavily quoted in the company history (John 1959) and books published by Mary Booth (1918) and Duncan Crow (1965). Other contemporary material from company records, the trade and national press and industry sources are also used and help to avoid errors in interpretation. Schwerin (2004) highlights the usefulness of re- evaluating company correspondence in this way as a rich source of material from which to identify and examine company relationships and approaches. The use of additional sources is necessary to provide context and to help prevent adapting the history to develop false conclusions which then become established as historical facts. A large amount of contemporary material is now available, particularly in the USA, which allows the interrogation of the position of many actors in the leather network. It has been suggested (Ford et al 2011) that the process of managing in business networks can usefully be examined using three variables: the network pictures of participants; their purposeful networking and the outcomes of that networking. Clearly, the outcomes of networking will be viewed differently by each of the participants and these views will change over time. Further, perceived network outcomes will affect the network pictures of actors, their view of their own position in the network and their approach to networking. The concept of network position refers to the unique point in network space that an actor occupies at a particular point in time. Network space is multidimensional and, among other aspects, may be expressed in terms of a physical a relational and a technological dimension 2 Hereafter referred to as the Leather Network. 3 (Hakansson et al, 2009). Finally, network pictures will affect individual actors‟ views of what is appropriate networking for themselves and for others and their view of network outcomes. Business networking involves multiple actors, each of which initiates interaction and reacts to the initiatives of others. Business networking takes place within the context of a pre-existing pattern of interdependencies between actors and contributes to the evolution of those interdependencies. These interdependencies form the links between the variety of resources and activities within individual actors and relationships that are distributed across the network. The networking of multiple actors and the evolution of activities, resources and interdependencies contribute to the constant motion of the network. Thus, the process of innovation in this landscape is multi-actor, multi-dimensional and sequential. Innovation is an outcome of an existing and evolving pattern of resources and activities and the networking of multiple actors. Innovation is a continuing process and its outcomes at any point in time will be perceived differently by those involved in it, whether they recognise it or not. Each of these actors will selectively confront some of the issues or problems that it faces before or within that process while conforming to other aspects of its current interactions. Each will seek to create or consolidate on its existing patterns of interaction and lead or follow counterparts in aspects of their interactions and in the direction of innovation or change. LIVING IN THE 19TH CENTURY LEATHER NETWORK Three Actors meet at a time of Financial Crisis: Booth and Company was founded in 1862 by two brothers Alfred and Charles Booth. Its primary function was to export semi-processed sheepskins from the UK to the US where a rapidly growing population was creating a need for more resources. Booths were a long standing Liverpool family and Alfred, who was based in New York, had training as an international trader. After a difficult start during the American Civil War the company performed well, expanded into other leather materials and set up a small shipping line trading between Liverpool and North Brazil. In 1873 Booths hired Julius Kuttner as temporary book-keeper in New York. He had come to the US having worked in a corset factory in Stuttgart, Germany where he had developed a machine production line for corsets. He had also worked on improving textile machinery but had ended up “at a loose end” (White, 1956 p4) when he joined Booths. In 1877 Charles Booth was also in the US for about five months - “the business being in a critical condition” (Booth, 1918, p48) - and took Kuttner with him on a trip to Gloversville to learn in detail about problems at the Kent and Stevens 4 tannery. Gloversville was a large tanning centre in upstate New York which produced its own leather and made this into gloves. Kent and Stevens was a long standing client who owed Booths significant sums. There were a lot of business failures in Gloversville around that time and Kent‟s position had deteriorated as a result of dishonest activity of Fred Stevens, the junior partner: But the most serious drawback was caused by the extensive forgeries of Fred Stevens prior to his unceremonious departure. The forgeries are believed to have aggregated nearly $100,000, and the spurious notes held mainly by the National Bank of Gloversville, Hays & Wells' bank of Johnstown and Booth & Co, of New York.3 Thus the first element in this story involved three actors, one having a range of commercial resources, one having directly related technological resources and the third having coincidental technological resources coming together during an episode of financial breakdown. Booth & Co paid off the other creditors and helped secure loans for Kent to run the business via a mortgage (in the name of Kuttner and his wife). It was later agreed that Booths would become more involved and the business was completely reorganized and became Booth and Kent. James Kent continued to work on technical and research matters but Kuttner took a careful oversight over matters in Gloversville, superintending all the commercial areas. A Technological Innovation Described: For over 5000 years, tanning had been a slow process that used vegetable extracts which gave brown leather which was relatively thick and hard regardless of raw material. It was in this context that Kuttner‟s interest in technology was now rekindled because “He (had) found a congenial spirit in James Kent, who was also an inventor” (White 1956). As a consequence of this collaboration, two fundamentally new ways of tanning were developed at Booth and Kent. These were the Dongola process in 1879 and chrome tanning in 1884. The latter was to become the dominant tanning technology 3 UTICA MORNING HERALD Thursday, April 23, 1878 5 in the world after the 1st World War and remains so to this day (Thomson, 1985 and Luck, 1986). The best description of the development of Dongola is given in a detailed account in the New York Times (NYT Oct 4, 1888). James Kent of Kent and Stevens is described as an Englishman with a “genius for investigation and experiment”. The abolition of duty in 1872 brought in skins of “every kind of animal from every quarter of the globe” including kangaroos which had been thought good for making gloves.
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